Captiva Breeze by Ed Robinson

Author:Ed Robinson [Robinson, Ed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leap of Faith Publications
Published: 2019-12-10T22:00:00+00:00

Eleven

When I explained the mission to Marie, she did not respond with glee. She was sitting down, and she put her head in her hands and looked at the floor. I’d been doing all the talking, so I waited for her to respond.

“I feel like I’ve started a chain reaction, and now it’s out of hand,” she said. “Do you have to do this?”

“I committed to it, yes,” I said. “It will stop that damn bridge for a long time, maybe forever.”

“Which is what I wanted,” she said. “But I never expected something like this to come out of it. You’re like some secret agent or something. I asked you who you are, and I still don’t know.”

“I am not a secret agent,” I said. “I’m a freelance boat bum. That’s it, I swear. I just tend towards trouble, most of the time, for a good cause.”

“Aren’t you afraid?”

“I’ll be surrounded by a team of men who are more capable than I,” I said. “I’ll probably be humping gear and fetching tools.”

“Blowing up means explosives,” she said. “That sounds dangerous to me.”

“I suppose so,” I said. “But these guys are pros. I’m more worried about gators and mosquitoes.”

“You’re not winging it this time, are you?”

“Fred and I went over all the details,” I said. “I’ll relay that to the team. That’s the biggest part of my participation.”

“How long will it take?”

“I don’t know,” I said. “Five miles is a lot of road to make disappear.”

“Is this even happening?” she asked. “It doesn’t seem real.”

“Is the Redfish Pass Bridge ruined?” I asked. “It’s as real as that.”

She got up and went to the fridge and pulled out two beers. She handed me one, opened hers, and took a long swig. I did the same. She kept looking at me funny, studying me, even though she had seen me enough to know my face by heart.

“What?” I asked. “Do I have a booger or something?”

“I’m still trying to figure you out,” she said. “What kind of man you really are.”

“I was the guy who wanted to get into your pants,” I said. “Now I’m the guy who would like to continue to do so.”

“And you’ll do any crazy damn thing for me?”

“I have my limits,” I said. “But this mission is within them.”

“Which means you have a history with this type of thing,” she said. “Dangerous things. Illegal things maybe. You’re some kind of outlaw.”

“They say girls like bad boys.”

“Stop fooling around,” she said. “How far will you go? Do you kill people?”

That was a question I didn’t want to answer. It would be hard to explain at that moment in time. If I said yes, she’d be horrified. If I said no, it would be a lie. I stalled by slamming the rest of my beer and going for a refill. I grabbed two and handed her one.

“Are you a killer, Breeze?”

“I have killed,” I admitted. “In self-defense and in the defense of others, but I’m no killer.”

“So you make a distinction?” she asked.

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